Re: Steam: Easy Anti-Cheat does not work under Void

[dsemy <dsemy@users.noreply.github.com>]

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New comment by dsemy on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/41388#issuecomment-1441594609

Comment:
> I'm referring to the fact that the upstream issue at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29456 remains open and unassigned five months after it was reported.
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> Whether other distributions carry a patch to revert the change is irrelevant here. Void favors upstream decisions and eschews patches unless they are backports of upstream changes or fix issues introduced specifically by our packaging. This is neither. Upstream made a change to drop support for DT_HASH and continues to stand by it. We should be uninterested in fixing this problem until either upstream reverts the patch (in which case we can backport it if we don't want to wait for the next release) or EAC is fixed to support the glibc change (in which case the problem goes away entirely).
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> This is not our problem to fix.

This issue isn't caused because support for DT_HASH was dropped though; as other comments indicate, Easy Anti Cheat has been broken on Void since at least glibc 2.32.  After all, the current glibc package does contain this patch and yet EAC is still broken.  IOW, discussion about this patch is off-topic and would be better suited in a separate issue IMO.

I'm posting this mainly because as a user your comment (being the last one in the chain) made me think that the issue is related to the glibc 2.36 update, when it isn't actually.  This discouraged me from attempting to troubleshoot it on my own, which seems counter-productive to me (although admittedly I didn't get very far when I did try troubleshooting on my own).  This is significant, as currently Void is the only distribution I am aware of in which EAC is broken despite the aforementioned patch being applied.

In any case, I would very much like to see this issue fixed, and I would be glad to help with any testing (I own Elden Ring and Fall Guys on Steam, both of which use EAC unfortunately).

BTW, I don't use the Steam Flatpak since I also use Steam as a launcher for emulated games - setting this up is very complicated with the Flatpak version (Flatpak in general is way too complicated IMO, so I'd prefer to avoid it  if possible).